PROFINET IO

PROFINET IO

PROFINET IO is a standard adopted by PROFIBUS International relating to the communication of I/O controllers (PLC) with I/O devices (field equipment). The technology is based on the Ethernet as the communication medium and serves the purpose of transferring I/O data, parameters, alarms etc. A difference is made between real-time applications (PROFINET RT) with cycle times of 5 to 10 ms or PROFINET Isochronous Real-time (IRT) for high-performance applications with bus cycle times in the range of 1 ms. For IRT applications, the I/O devices require switching functionality, i.e. special chipsets must be used.
 

• Technology consulting and drawing up of requirement specifications
• Hardware and software development of industrial Ethernet communication boards with PROFINET RT, IRT (in preparation)
• PROFINET RT, IRT hardware platforms
• Ethernet solutions for supporting several industrial Ethernet dialects
• PROFINET stack porting
• Implementation of PROFINET profiles
• Gateway developments
• Equipment tests in the fieldbus laboratory (in preparation)
• PROFINET parametrization and diagnosis, compiling of XML/GSDML (in preparation)
• Support in the selection of development environments and tooling
• Manufacturing engineering

PROFINET IO® Hardware Design Package